Cleavon Little
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Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American film and theatre actor, known for his lead role as Bart in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles (1974) and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early-1970s sitcom Temperatures Rising. He also starred in the comedy films FM (1978) and Once Bitten (1985) and the action films Vanishing Point (1971) and the Toy Soldiers (1984).
Known for
Credits
Blazing Saddles (1974)
as Bart
Vanishing Point (1971)
as Super Soul
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
as Hawthorne Dooley
Fletch Lives (1989)
as Calculus Entropy
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
as Lo Boy
Once Bitten (1985)
as Sebastian
Surf 2 (1984)
as Daddy O
Greased Lightning (1977)
as Peewee
The Salamander (1981)
as Major Carl Malinowski, USMC
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982)
as Rolla
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
as Jackson
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
High Risk (1981)
as Rockney
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977)
as Wolf
Double Exposure (1982)
as Police Chief
What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)
as Phil
In the Nick of Time (1991)
as Freddy
Toy Soldiers (1984)
as Buck
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
as Harley Copeland
Back in the Saddle (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
as Rabbit Thompson
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind (1984)
as Edmundo
The Sky Is Gray (1980)
as Monsieur Bayonne
Separate but Equal (1991)
as Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
FM (1978)
as Prince
Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Murder by Numbers (1990)
as David Selby
Money to Burn (1973)
as Calvin Baker
Jimmy the Kid (1982)
as Herb
The Gig (1985)
as Marshall WIlson
Perfect Harmony (1991)
as Pastor Clarence Johnson
Goin' to Chicago (1990)
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